I  earned a Master of Arts and Master of Education in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and completed an Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  I am currently completing a post-graduate certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at Adelphi University, and I'm a second year doctoral student at Pace University's Mental Health Counseling Program.  I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Connecticut, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York.  

I have been providing individual/dyadic therapy and parent guidance in English and Spanish for over 18 years.  Prior to establishing my private practice, I served as the Director of Clinical and Community Partnerships for the Child Guidance Center of Southern CT (CGC).  I also served as a faculty member of the Weitzman Institute's ECHO on Childhood Trauma, where I trained primary care medical, behavioral health, and school-based health professionals in providing trauma-informed care for youth and families.   I was previously the Training Director for the Child First National Program Office, an evidence-based two-generation model that works with young children and families who have been exposed to toxic stress.  

Currently I am part of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative training team, a collective endeavor focused on supporting the growth of infant and early childhood reflective supervisors, leaders and change agents in order to sustain meaningful levels of reflective supervision and practice in their communities. 

My areas of research interest are the impact of caregiver trauma history on parent-child relationships, use of video to increase caregiver attunement and sensitivity during playful interactions with autistic children, as well as how caregiver experiences of good-enough parenting can be accessed and used in the service of healing caregiver-child relationships.  

I am a rostered Child-Parent Psychotherapy clinician and was the internal agency trainer in Attachment, Regulation & Competency for CGC.  In addition, I am a DIRFloortime provider and a Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator.  I was a 2021-2022 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) Fellow, and have written a column titled “Good-Enough Parenting” for a local newspaper.